December 31, 2011
twenty eleven epilogue
my favourite image from 2011 by Mckinley Rodgers Photography Over the course of the last 365, I have gained a husband, a family and a new name. [...]
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December 26, 2011
boxing day stroll in kew gardens with stanley &...
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December 22, 2011
solstice
It’s the shortest day, the longest night. There’s a Waxing Crescent moon. Its Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule. The pagans will be dancing naked [...]
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December 18, 2011
stupid, silly season
bear totem: possibly magic December has mostly been made of days in a row of back to back meetings; several difficult-but-necessary ‘I am terminating your contract [...]
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December 4, 2011
hold on is a feminist anthem. and other things i...
See the badge over there? Down a bit, on the right. It says ‘mixtapes’? Clicking on that, dear reader, will confirm for you my love of [...]
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November 28, 2011
crazy mike’s bargain emporium
the mighty yellow teapot of happiness: yours for a dollar In 1999, a couple of weeks after arriving in Welly I found myself making the first of what would [...]
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November 24, 2011
thankful
For being at this end of four billion years of evolutionary success; for the bittersweet gift of witnessing the sunset of a good, long life; for [...]
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November 21, 2011
scenes from the weekend
In which we put the world to rights, just after the fourth bottle at 2am on Saturday morning; got to potter around Lyme Regis and breath [...]
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November 12, 2011
heroes
Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Albright, Christopher Hitchens, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, Janet Frame, Martin Amis, and Etta James would all be attendance at my [...]
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November 6, 2011
jerusalem
I always thought it odd when we sung Blake’s hymn at school: ‘green and pleasant’ was not my impression of England. Ensconced in New Zealand in [...]
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October 22, 2011
thirty-eight, thirty-nine
So far 38 is pretty bloody awesome. And before I’m thirty-nine I plan to: toast the All Black’s as they hold aloft the Web Ellis Trophy [...]
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October 20, 2011
38
At 35 I wrote the list of everything I have ever learned. I’m pretty much sticking to it. Today I turn 38, and I would like to [...]
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